The Library of George Cosmatos: Part 1

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[Burton, Robert.]

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Description

  • [Burton, Robert.]
The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is. With all the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Severall Cures of it. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1621

Provenance

The Library of Richard Manney (Sotheby's, New York, 11 October 1991, lot 36), book-label

Literature

STC 4159; Madan 493; Grolier Langland to Wither 30; Grolier English 18; Pforzheimer 119; PMM 120

Catalogue Note

the first edition of one of the most celebrated books in early modern english literature. Burton's Anatomy has been regarded as one of the most curious and most fascinating books ever written. It was, among other things, the only book that ever induced Dr Johnson to get out of bed two hours earlier than he had intended.